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The link above will take you to the story, ugly is the word that comes to mind. Having lived in the City for six years, and in this time and place this kind of crap reportedly said burns me. Now there may be a reasonable explanation, all in fun, just joking, but there is a time and a place, never, and certainly not publicly.

Ugly, sad, and disgusting. Of course he had to backpedal. People like that should be disciplined somehow.

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

The only reason guys like this Culliver idiot don't want to play football alongside gay men is because they are terrified that some "faggot" (to use their own likely terminology) could be a MUCH better player than they are. They're scared shitless of being athletically bested by someone they see as less than a man. Spineless, bigoted jerks.

I hope they fine him and impose whatever other penalties they can. But do I think it reflects on the team as a whole? No, not necessarily.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Its amazing how that football players words in his head didn't match up with the words in his heart until management helped him sort it out , all that in the space of one day . This is a prime example of how corporations are people too .

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

The only reason guys like this Culliver idiot don't want to play football alongside gay men is because they are terrified that some "faggot" (to use their own likely terminology) could be a MUCH better player than they are. They're scared shitless of being athletically bested by someone they see as less than a man. Spineless, bigoted jerks.

I hope they fine him and impose whatever other penalties they can. But do I think it reflects on the team as a whole? No, not necessarily.

I hope his teammates "get him up outta there".

There's another dynamic involved; A lot of these types don't want openly gay men (or even suspected gay men) in a naked situations. Since many of them have hidden feelings, it's almost sexual in nature.

I noticed in highschool that the truly secure men had no issue with showering around suspected gays. I also learned early on that the ones who screamed "faggot" the loudest would be the first one to "play" around at the first opportunity. I don't have pictures to prove it, but it happened quite often. AAHH, the memories.

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Its amazing how that football players words in his head didn't match up with the words in his heart until management helped him sort it out , all that in the space of one day . This is a prime example of how corporations are people too .

This is a corporation, we can argue the definition until forever, but bottom line is, they are are a corporation. With that said, any corporation has standards of conduct and policy, training, etc. There is no excuse, if there is one player, and now there appears others, then the system and processes are broken. Clearly the message is broken and untrue.

So pro sports teams corporations have codes of conduct that players employees must follow. If one of them breaks a rule, then the entire corporation is guilty? They usually call the employee out on their action and offer whatever coaching is needed to comply with said rules.

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